more like iron man 2, part 2. which is basically what i expected. superhero movies come in two flavours: origin story and daily grind. the first movie is generally the origin story, and the rest of them are daily grind, unless you go back and redo the origin story. the origin story is where the bulk of the character development usually happens; it is where the superhero encounters all the change which guides them to choose to become a superhero/supervillain. the daily grind, on the other hand, might feature new gadgets/superpowers, but does not change much about the character's core. sometimes they try to invoke the origin story magic by having the superhero give up on being a superhero, then decide to become a superhero again, but it never seems as interesting as a real origin story. the iron man series has done a fine job of trying to do character development in the daily grind stories, but they are still daily grind stories.
iron man 3 shows a troubled tony stark wrestling with his experience from the avengers, but it was not clear to me what the problem was, exactly. it seemed that they meant to show he was hiding behind his armor or that he was thinking that the armor itself was iron man, and that his big character development was in casting off the armor and coming to realize that *he* is iron man. that is all very well and good, but it is not clear to me how that follows from the events of the avengers. i am also completely confused about why he blew up all his robots; they were perfectly good robots, and he is just going to have to go build more of them.
anyway, i did not find the character development that enthralling. the special effects and action and one-liners were well-executed, if standard, action movie fare. iron man 3 gets three prehensile robots.
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